The Weekend Quiz

Alexander the Great: know much about his dad? Photograph: Araldo De Luca/Corbis

The questions

1 The bones of which Spanish hero are buried in Burgos Cathedral?2 Who hated all Boets and Bainters?3 What branch of maths is named after a small stone?4 Arthur Griffith founded which political party?5 What film genre was known in the industry as "oaters"?6 Ipsos merged with which market research firm in 2005?7 What is the oldest university in Scandinavia?8 Who wrote the sonnet On His Blindness?What links:9 Winchester; Cadbury Castle; Tintagel; Caerleon?10 Cirque; valley; piedmont; tidewater; continental?11 Jim Threapleton; Sam Mendes; Ned Rocknroll?12 Cook; Hammond, Pietersen, Cowdrey and Boycott?13 The son of Emperor Charles V; the father of Alexander the Great?14 Orwell; Samuel Johnson; Betty Trask; TS Eliot; Walter Scott?15 Concord; Hartford; Boston; Providence; Montpelier; Augusta?